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UK Immigration Blog
Employer Guide: Rest For Staff Working 8-Hour Work Shifts In The UK
Employers in the United Kingdom are legally required to give their employees rest breaks if they are working shifts of more than six hours, in accordance with the Working Time…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
UK Government Publishes Response to Consultation on Retained EU Employment Law Reforms: What Does This Mean for Employers?
Quick Hits The UK government recently published its response to a consultation that considered reforms to retained EU employment law. A draft statutory instrument implementing the reforms, the Employment Rights…
Global Workplace Insider
Governments response on Retained EU Employment Law
By Amanda Sanders (UK), Joanna MacKenzie
On 8 November 2023 the UK government published its response to its May 2023 consultation paper on “Retained EU Employment Law” (the Response). This covered three areas: (i) record keeping…
Employer Perspectives
Changes to Working Time, TUPE and the return of rolled up holiday pay for some from 1 January 2024
On 8 November 2023, the Government published its much-anticipated response to key employment law consultations announced earlier this year. The consultations were focused primarily on areas of retained EU employment…
Wage & Hour - Developments & Highlights
Third Circuit Clarifies The Meaning Of “Integral and Indispensable” Test In Preliminary/Postliminary Working Time Cases: Employers Beware!
I love working time cases. And we got a real winner lately. The Third Circuit has recently ruled that clothes-changing time for oil rig workers was compensable. In so doing,…
Employer Perspectives
Germany: New rules proposed to record working time – more questions than answers so far
By Dr Hagen Köckeritz, LLM oec. int., Sherilee Nairn
On 18 April 2023, the German Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS) presented the long-awaited draft amendment to the Working Time Act and other regulations. Following the decision…
Global Workplace Insider
What next for UK Employment law?
The European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 preserved a number of EU laws in UK statute as Retained EU Law (REUL). The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (REUL Bill)…
Inside Jobs
UK Employment: Top Five Hot Topics in 2023
By Chris Bracebridge, Antonio Michaelides, Hannah Edmonds-Camara
2023 will likely see employment lawyers and HR professionals (in the UK and further afield) grappling with a number of key employment-related legal and policy developments. In this alert we…
Employer Perspectives
Holiday pay: Harper Trust v Brazel
In the case of Harper Trust v Brazel, the Supreme Court has confirmed that workers who only work for part of the year, but on permanent contracts, are effectively entitled…
Employment Law Worldview
EAT looks through Sash Window for better view on worker holiday pay claims (UK)
King –v- Sash Window Workshop Company was a particularly difficult European Court of Justice case for businesses in the gig economy. It suggested that where a worker was not provided…